Balázs Vinarz has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/30987 )
Change subject: mb/asus: Add Asus A88XM-E FM2+ with documentation ......................................................................
Patch Set 4:
Could you build a coreboot with a max debug level (8: SPEW), and at the fully booted system go to ./coreboot/util/cbmem/ , run "make", and then - sudo ./cbmem -c > boot.log . That's to collect the whole coreboot boot log, to see if there are any messages related to your NIC. Would be nice if you could upload such a log somewhere (pastebin?) and share with us
There is not a single line which points to a pci device found on the place where it exists on the factory fw. Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/mQwUNgRx. My idea would be that it's using some pci bridge, like in the F2A85M. I tried to enable all the devices on the devicetree. Nothing showed up, but even the SDcard reader etc.
``` Factory FW 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at fe900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 4: Memory at f0800000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169 ```